The American Way

I see in today’s news that, “Reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs traveled to an unnamed hospital in Tennessee for a liver transplant this March have sparked a debate over whether the wealthy are able to use their resources to game the national organ donation system.”

Whoever is questioning this is seriously naïve. Of course the wealthy receive better health care than the poor in America. No comparison. Get real.

Here is the way it works in America. Many people who work full time do not have any health insurance. Even if they do have insurance, the insurance companies pay large bonuses to the doctors on their staff who reject the most claims.

If you are working in America but get real sick, in many cases you eventually lose your job. When you do get canned you pretty much always lose your health insurance coverage. Even if you are offered to keep it, no longer working there is no way that you can afford it.

And then once you are really sick with something serious like leukemia, and try to buy individual coverage, the insurance companies consider you to be uninsurable due to your pre-existing condition.

This is the American Way. More for the rich people, screw the poor and those who are down-on-their-luck. As my Belgian friend Axel Emmerman once told me, "There has always been shomething a little brutal about the American culture."
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